Team 45's Balldrop

[Kyle Love]

Originally Posted by Mike

Out of curiosity, how much did the second ball cost to make? Was it funded by the town, or the team? How long did it take you guys? How is it powered? This is a robotics forum, give us the tech specs!

But anyways, it looks real good. Can you program any light sequence into it?
-Imagines playing Sphere Pong on ball as it is dropping-

Here are my unsophisticated answers...

I'm not sure on the cost, but I believe it was relatively cheap for how cool it is.
It was mainly funded by the team, I believe.
It took us months to get it built, since we really didn't say "OK it will be done this week..." or something like that.
It's powered by 4 power supplies inside the ball that get power from and "umbilical" cord that comes out of it.
Any light sequence can be programmed. But, I'm not a programmer so I'm sure Alan Anderson could give you specs on all the programming. (It actually could count down on the ball last year from 60-0 but last year was a big mess up and the program didn't get started on time.)

*If my answers aren't all correct please correct me, Andy, Alan, Amy*